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Author | : Karen Swallow Prior |
Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-11-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 140020626X |
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With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More took the world of British letters by storm when she arrived in London from Bristol, becoming a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright and quickly befriending the author Samuel Johnson, the politician Horace Walpole, and the actor David Garrick. Yet she was also a leader in the Evangelical movement, using her cultural position and her pen to support the growth of education for the poor, the reform of morals and manners, and the abolition of Britain’s slave trade. Fierce Convictions weaves together world and personal history into a stirring story of life that intersected with Wesley and Whitefield’s Great Awakening, the rise and influence of Evangelicalism, and convulsive effects of the French Revolution. A woman of exceptional intellectual gifts and literary talent, Hannah More was above all a person whose faith compelled her both to engage her culture and to transform it.
Author | : Patricia Demers |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813187338 |
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History has not been kind to Hannah More. This once lionized writer and activist—the most influential female philanthropist of her day—is now considered by many to be the embodiment of pious morality and reactionary anti-feminism. Largely because of her belief in separate spheres for men and women, More has been vilified by modern-day feminists. The first biography to examine the complete range of her life and work, The World of Hannah More depicts the author as a forceful voice in her own day and one who, from the point of view of plain justice, today deserves a more nuanced treatment. Without denying the problems More presents for modern readers, Patricia Demers has produced a balanced revisionist study of a woman enormously influential in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century England. By examining the career of this cultural warrior, situating her major texts in relation to contemporaries, and addressing her published writing, philanthropic activities, and voluminous correspondence, Demers anchors The World of Hannah More in the work itself—an appropriate and just response to a woman who took pride in living to some purpose. Trying to deal justly with More and her female moral imperialism requires admitting both the expansiveness and the limitations of her charity, methodology and vision. Without venerating or trivializing, Demers pursues the doubleness and contradictions of More's largely neglected or superficially mined works, from the determined experiments of the earliest plays to the poignantly revealing essays on practical piety, Christian morals, and Saint Paul.
Author | : Hannah More |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2010-10-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1108018904 |
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Hannah More's influential two-volume work of 1799 outlines her conservative stance on women's education and conduct.
Author | : Hannah More |
Publisher | : London : T. Cadell and W. Davies |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1809 |
Genre | : Conduct of life |
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Author | : Hannah More |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1800 |
Genre | : Upper class |
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Author | : Anne Stott |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780199245321 |
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This is the first substantial biography of More for 50 years and the first to make extensive use of her unpublished correspondence.
Author | : Hannah More |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Children |
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Download The Works of Hannah More in Eleven Volumes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Hannah More |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1834 |
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Author | : Marc Baer |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1625642059 |
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"Does God use flawed people despite their shortcomings? Mere Believers tells the stories of eight remarkable men and women living in tumultuous times, revealing surprising and inspirational answers. William Wilberforce defined Christian as ""a pilgrim travelling on business through a strange country."" In Mere Believers, historian Marc Baer examines eight Christian figures from the past, indicating how their conversion not only directed them to new vocations (""travelling on business""), but also impacted in profoundly positive ways the society and culture of that ""strange country"" they called home. The book reveals how faithful lives can have revolutionary consequences, offering poignant models for vocational discernment and spiritual formation. Mere Believers helps readers engage our own times better by bringing them into conversation with courageous Christians of the past. The subjects represent a variety of Christian traditions. They are male and female, black and white, English, Welsh, Scottish, and an African immigrant. Mere Believers reveals how what we believe is the legacy of what they achieved, that some of the best minds and hearts in the past have been committed, culturally wise Christians, and in turn how their lives and worldviews have shaped our own--including, paradoxically, those who reject Christianity. "
Author | : Hannah Tennant-Moore |
Publisher | : Hogarth |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2016-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101903279 |
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Nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize A boldly candid, raw portrait of a young woman's search for meaning and purpose in an indifferent world Purposefully aimless, self-destructive, and impulsively in and out of love, Elsie is a young woman who feels lost. She's in a tumultuous relationship, is stuck in a dead-end job, and has a relentless, sharp intelligence that’s at odds with her many bad decisions. When her initial attempts to improve her life go awry, Elsie decides that a dramatic change is the only solution. While traveling through Paris and Sri Lanka, Elsie meets people who challenge and provoke her towards the change she is seeking, but ultimately she must still come face-to-face with herself. Whole-hearted, fiercely honest and inexorably human, Wreck and Order is a stirring debut novel that, in mirroring one young woman's dizzying quest for answers, illuminates the important questions that drive us all.